Here is
Cominius.
Onely faire speech.
I thinke 'twill serue, if he can thereto frame his
spirit.
Come, come, wee'le prompt you.
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Here is
Cominius.
Onely faire speech.
I thinke 'twill serue, if he can thereto frame his
spirit.
Come, come, wee'le prompt you.
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Do your will.
I, but mildely.
Well mildely be it then, Mildely.
Hee's comming.
How accompanied?
I haue: 'tis ready.
Haue you collected them by Tribes?
I haue.
I shall informe them.
Very well.
Hee's comming.
How accompanied?
I haue: 'tis ready.
Haue you collected them by Tribes?
I haue.
I shall informe them.
Very well.
Well, heere he comes.
Calmely, I do beseech you.
Amen, Amen.
A Noble wish.
Draw neere ye people.
First heare me speake.
Well, say: Peace hoe.
I am Content.
Well, well, no more.
Answer to vs.
Say then: 'tis true, I ought so
How? Traytor?
Nay temperately: your promise.
Marke you this people?
To'th'Rocke, to'th'Rocke with him.
But since he hath seru'd well for Rome.
What do you prate of Seruice.
I talke of that, that know it.
You?
Is this the promise that you made your mother.
Know, I pray you.
He's sentenc'd: No more hearing.
We know your drift. Speake what?
It shall be so, it shall be so.
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<head type="supplied">[Act 3, Scene 3]</head>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Sicinius and Brutus.</stage>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<l n="2148">In this point charge him home, that he affects</l>
<l n="2149">Tyrannicall power: If he euade vs there,</l>
<l n="2150">Inforce him with his enuy to the people,</l>
<l n="2151">And that the Spoile got on the<hi rend="italic">Antiats</hi>
</l>
<l n="2152">Was ne're distributed. What, will he come?</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter an Edile.</stage>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<p n="2153">Hee's comming.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<p n="2154">How accompanied?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<l n="2155">With old<hi rend="italic">Menenius</hi>, and those Senators</l>
<l n="2156">That alwayes fauour'd him.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2157">Haue you a Catalogue</l>
<l n="2158">Of all the Voices that we haue procur'd, set downe by'th
<lb rend="turnunder"/>
<pc rend="turnunder">(</pc>Pole?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<p n="2159">I haue: 'tis ready.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2160">Haue you collected them by Tribes?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<p n="2161">I haue.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2162">Assemble presently the people hither:</l>
<l n="2163">And when they heare me say, it shall be so,</l>
<l n="2164">I'th'right and strength a'th'Commons: be it either</l>
<l n="2165">For death, for fine, or Banishment, then let them</l>
<l n="2166">If I say Fine, cry Fine; if Death, cry Death,</l>
<l n="2167">Insisting on the olde prerogatiue</l>
<l n="2168">And power i'th Truth a'th Cause.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<p n="2169">I shall informe them.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<l n="2170">And when such time they haue begun to cry,</l>
<l n="2171">Let them not cease, but with a dinne confus'd</l>
<l n="2172">Inforce the present Execution</l>
<l n="2173">Of what we chance to Sentence.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edi.</speaker>
<p n="2174">Very well.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2175">Make them be strong, and ready for this hint</l>
<l n="2176">When we shall hap to giu't them.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<l n="2177">Go about it,</l>
<l n="2178">Put him to Choller straite, he hath bene vs'd</l>
<l n="2179">Euer to conquer, and to haue his worth</l>
<l n="2180">Of contradiction. Being once chaft, he cannot</l>
<l n="2181">Be rein'd againe to Temperance, then he speakes</l>
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<cb n="1"/>
<l n="2182">What's in his heart, and that is there which looks</l>
<l n="2183">With vs to breake his necke.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Coriolanus, Menenius, and Comi
<lb/>nius, with others.</stage>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2184">Well, heere he comes.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<p n="2185">Calmely, I do beseech you.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2186">I, as an Hostler, that fourth poorest peece</l>
<l n="2187">Will beare the Knaue by'th Volume:</l>
<l n="2188">Th' honor'd Goddes</l>
<l n="2189">Keepe Rome in safety, and the Chaires of Iustice</l>
<l n="2190">Supplied with worthy men, plant loue amongs</l>
<l n="2191">Through our large Temples with<choice>
<abbr>yͤ</abbr>
<expan>the</expan>
</choice>shewes of peace</l>
<l n="2192">And not our streets with Warre.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sen.1">
<speaker rend="italic">1 Sen.</speaker>
<p n="2193">Amen, Amen.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<p n="2194">A Noble wish.</p>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter the Edile with the Plebeians.</stage>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2195">Draw neere ye people.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<l n="2196">List to your Tribunes. Audience:</l>
<l n="2197">Peace I say.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2198">First heare me speake.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-trs">
<speaker rend="italic">Both Tri.</speaker>
<p n="2199">Well, say: Peace hoe.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2200">Shall I be charg'd no further then this present?</l>
<l n="2201">Must all determine heere?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2202">I do demand,</l>
<l n="2203">If you submit you to the peoples voices,</l>
<l n="2204">Allow their Officers, and are content</l>
<l n="2205">To suffer lawfull Censure for such faults</l>
<l n="2206">As shall be prou'd vpon you.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2207">I am Content.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<l n="2208">Lo Citizens, he sayes he is Content.</l>
<l n="2209">The warlike Seruice he ha's done, consider: Thinke</l>
<l n="2210">Vpon the wounds his body beares, which shew</l>
<l n="2211">Like Graues i'th holy Church‑yard.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2212">Scratches with Briars, scarres to moue</l>
<l n="2213">Laughter onely.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<l n="2214">Consider further:</l>
<l n="2215">That when he speakes not like a Citizen,</l>
<l n="2216">You finde him like a Soldier: do not take</l>
<l n="2217">His rougher Actions for malicious sounds:</l>
<l n="2218">But as I say, such as become a Soldier,</l>
<l n="2219">Rather then enuy you.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-com">
<speaker rend="italic">Com.</speaker>
<p n="2220">Well, well, no more.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2221">What is the matter,</l>
<l n="2222">That being past for Consull with full voyce:</l>
<l n="2223">I am so dishonour'd, that the very houre</l>
<l n="2224">You take it off againe.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2225">Answer to vs.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2226">Say then: 'tis true, I ought so</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2227">We charge you, that you haue contriu'd to take</l>
<l n="2228">From Rome all season'd Office, and to winde</l>
<l n="2229">Your selfe into a power tyrannicall,</l>
<l n="2230">For which you are a Traitor to the people.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2231">How? Traytor?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<p n="2232">Nay temperately: your promise.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2233">The fires i'th'lowest hell. Fould in the people:</l>
<l n="2234">Call me their Traitor, thou iniurious Tribune.</l>
<l n="2235">Within thine eyes sate twenty thousand deaths.</l>
<l n="2236">In thy hands clutcht: as many Millions in</l>
<l n="2237">Thy lying tongue, both numbers. I would say</l>
<l n="2238">Thou lyest vnto thee, with a voice as free,</l>
<l n="2239">As I do pray the Gods.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2240">Marke you this people?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-all">
<speaker rend="italic">All.</speaker>
<p n="2241">To'th'Rocke, to'th'Rocke with him.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2242">Peace:</l>
<l n="2243">We neede not put new matter to his charge:</l>
<l n="2244">What you haue seene him do, and heard him speake:</l>
<cb n="2"/>
<l n="2245">Beating your Officers, cursing your selues,</l>
<l n="2246">Opposing Lawes with stroakes, and heere defying</l>
<l n="2247">Those whose great power must try him.</l>
<l n="2248">Euen this so criminall, and in such capitall kinde</l>
<l n="2249">Deserues th'extreamest death.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<p n="2250">But since he hath seru'd well for Rome.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2251">What do you prate of Seruice.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Brut.</speaker>
<p n="2252">I talke of that, that know it.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<p n="2253">You?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-men">
<speaker rend="italic">Mene.</speaker>
<p n="2254">Is this the promise that you made your mother.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-com">
<speaker rend="italic">Com.</speaker>
<p n="2255">Know, I pray you.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2256">Ile know no further:</l>
<l n="2257">Let them pronounce the steepe Tarpeian death,</l>
<l n="2258">Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger</l>
<l n="2259">But with a graine a day, I would not buy</l>
<l n="2260">Their mercie, at the price of one faire word,</l>
<l n="2261">Nor checke my Courage for what they can giue,</l>
<l n="2262">To haue't with saying, Good morrow.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2263">For that he ha's</l>
<l n="2264">(As much as in him lies) from time to time</l>
<l n="2265">Enui'd against the people; seeking meanes</l>
<l n="2266">To plucke away their power: as now at last,</l>
<l n="2267">Giuen Hostile strokes, and that not in the presence</l>
<l n="2268">Of dreaded Iustice, but on the Ministers</l>
<l n="2269">That doth distribute it. In the name a'th'people,</l>
<l n="2270">And in the power of vs the Tribunes, wee</l>
<l n="2271">(Eu'n from this instant) banish him our Citie</l>
<l n="2272">In perill of precipitation</l>
<l n="2273">From off the Rocke Tarpeian, neuer more</l>
<l n="2274">To enter our Rome gates. I'th'Peoples name,</l>
<l n="2275">I say it shall bee so.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-all">
<speaker rend="italic">All.</speaker>
<l n="2276">It shall be so, it shall be so: let him away:</l>
<l n="2277">Hee's banish'd, and it shall be so.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-com">
<speaker rend="italic">Com.</speaker>
<l n="2278">Heare me my Masters, and my common friends.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2279">He's sentenc'd: No more hearing.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-com">
<speaker rend="italic">Com.</speaker>
<l n="2280">Let me speake:</l>
<l n="2281">I haue bene Consull, and can shew from Rome</l>
<l n="2282">Her Enemies markes vpon me. I do loue</l>
<l n="2283">My Countries good, with a respect more tender,</l>
<l n="2284">More holy, and profound, then mine owne life,</l>
<l n="2285">My deere Wiues estimate, her wombes encrease,</l>
<l n="2286">And treasure of my Loynes: then if I would</l>
<l n="2287">Speake that.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<p n="2288">We know your drift. Speake what?</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-bru">
<speaker rend="italic">Bru.</speaker>
<l n="2289">There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd</l>
<l n="2290">As Enemy to the people, and his Countrey.</l>
<l n="2291">It shall bee so.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-all">
<speaker rend="italic">All.</speaker>
<p n="2292">It shall be so, it shall be so.</p>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-cor">
<speaker rend="italic">Corio.</speaker>
<l n="2293">You common cry of Curs, whose breath I hate,</l>
<l n="2294">As reeke a'th'rotten Fennes: whose Loues I prize,</l>
<l n="2295">As the dead Carkasses of vnburied men,</l>
<l n="2296">That do corrupt my Ayre: I banish you,</l>
<l n="2297">And heere remaine with your vncertaintie.</l>
<l n="2298">Let euery feeble Rumor shake your hearts:</l>
<l n="2299">Your Enemies, with nodding of their Plumes</l>
<l n="2300">Fan you into dispaire: Haue the power still</l>
<l n="2301">To banish your Defenders, till at length</l>
<l n="2302">Your ignorance (which findes not till it feeles,</l>
<l n="2303">Making but reseruation of your selues,</l>
<l n="2304">Still your owne Foes) deliuer you</l>
<l n="2305">As most abated Captiues, to some Nation</l>
<l n="2306">That wonne you without blowes, despising</l>
<l n="2307">For you the City. Thus I turne my backe;</l>
<l n="2308">There is a world elsewhere.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominius, with Cumalijs.</stage>
<stage rend="italic center" type="business">They all shout, and throw vp their Caps.</stage>
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<cb n="1"/>
<sp who="#F-cor-aed">
<speaker rend="italic">Edile.</speaker>
<l n="2309">The peoples Enemy is gone, is gone.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-all">
<speaker rend="italic">All.</speaker>
<l n="2310">Our enemy is banish'd, he is gone: Hoo, oo.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-sic">
<speaker rend="italic">Sicin.</speaker>
<l n="2311">Go see him out at Gates, and follow him</l>
<l n="2312">As he hath follow'd you, with all despight</l>
<l n="2313">Giue him deseru'd vexation. Let a guard</l>
<l n="2314">Attend vs through the City.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-cor-all">
<speaker rend="italic">All.</speaker>
<l n="2315">Come, come, lets see him out at gates, come:</l>
<l n="2316">The Gods preserue our Noble Tribunes, come.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic inline" type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
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